Cupertino shorts: E-waste event at Montclaire Elementary on March 8

Silicon Valley Community Newspapers

Posted:
02/26/2014 06:05:34 PM PST

Updated:
02/26/2014 06:05:39 PM PST

E-waste event at Montclaire Elementary

Montclaire Elementary School in the Cupertino Union School District is hosting an e-waste drop-off event on March 8 in its Los Altos campus parking lot, 1160 St. Joseph Ave. The event will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and is open to the public.

Acceptable items for drop off include computer equipment and appliances, as well as cell phones, bubble wrap and batteries. Montclaire Elementary will receive a donation for all recyclable items.

The Silicon Valley United Nations Association-USA is inviting the public to an International Women's Day celebration on March 8 at 2 p.m. The event will take place at St. Jude's Episcopal Church, 20920 McClellan Road.

The event is titled "Twenty Years On" and will focus on reflections on the fourth United Nations World Conference on Women held in Beijing, China, in 1995.

Robin Abrams will be the moderator, with panelists C.J. Maupin, Betty Taylor, Sheila Brady and Nancy Keith Kelly. A question-and-answer session will follow. The event is free and open to the public.

A team of students from Homestead High School has won its qualifying regional competitions and will advance to the national finals in the National Science Bowl competition. The teams will travel to Washington, D.C., for the finals April 24-28.

Homestead High is among 14 teams of middle and high school students who won their regional competitions for the 2014 National Science Bowl in early February.

The National Science Bowl pits students from schools all around the country in a fast-paced, question-and-answer format, in which they solve technical problems and answer questions on a range of science disciplines, including biology, chemistry, earth and space science, physics and math, according to event organizers.

The top 16 high school teams and the top eight middle school teams in the finals will win $1,000 for their schools' science departments. Prizes for the top two high school teams for the 2014 National Science Bowl will be announced at a later date.